Need help with Microsoft Word

Umgowa · Mar 10, 2011

When typing a manuscript, I like to be able to open it and go immediately to the last word saved. It sure beats opening on the first page and having to scroll through all your pages . . . which could be many pages. I used to be able to do this with my old word processor, Word Perfect. Now I use the standard Microsoft Office Word 2007. Is there someone who could tell me how to do this with Microsoft Word 2007? Thanks.

CaroGirl · Mar 10, 2011

I don't know how to do that in MS2007. But, if you use the Document Map feature, you can have all your bookmarks laid out in a pane on the left-hand side. Click a bookmark link and, voila, it goes straight to it. You'd just have to add a bookmark to the last line before you saved if you wanted it to go there.

HtH.

dpaterso · Mar 10, 2011

I dunno if there is a way to do that.

Whenever I'm ready to save & quit a doc I type xxx so I can search for this string when I open the doc again. Takes me right back to where I left off. I've seen other members mention similar tricks.

-Derek

Terie · Mar 10, 2011

I seem to remember someone posting something about that feature. Have you searched the archives? You might try that.

Me? I can't be bothered with something like that. If I'm not working at the end, I just type *** where I stopped, and when I reopen the file, I search on ***. So that's a workaround you can use if you can't find the actual feature or if it doesn't exist.

Sophia · Mar 10, 2011

Pressing SHIFT + F5 should take you to the last edit you made to the file, but I seem to recall it didn't always work. That may have been fixed, now, though. (Can't test it here, unfortunately, as my version is older.)

alleycat · Mar 10, 2011

Are you talking about just going to the end of the document?

If so, just press Ctrl + End at the same time.

Ineti · Mar 10, 2011

alleycat said:
Are you talking about just going to the end of the document?

If so, just press Ctrl + End at the same time.

That would be my suggestion as well.

stormie · Mar 10, 2011

There was a discussion about that recently. Probably in the tech help section.

If I feel I'll need to go back to a certain point in the ms., I type **** and highlight it in yellow. Or just highlight a sentence. Easy to find in a 350 page ms.

Umgowa · Mar 12, 2011

Thanks

alleycat said:
Are you talking about just going to the end of the document?

If so, just press Ctrl + End at the same time.

Wow! Thanks for the great suggestions. This one above worked best for me. I really appreciate it.

froley · Mar 13, 2011

If you return after ***, Word cheerfully inserts an ugly line break. If you have that problem, I'd suggest typing 'tk' at the point you're editing instead, just before you quit. tk doesn't appear often in English, so when you reopen your document Ctrl + F tk and it should take you straight to where you want.

It's handy if you've got multiple points of interest you need to work on -- tk1, tk2, tk3, etc.

Val367 · Mar 14, 2011

This one by Froley is one that I've heard of before. Seems to work pretty well for marking points of interest.

Ctrl-End was going to be my comment but I'm tooooooooo slow

Terie · Mar 14, 2011

froley said:
If you return after ***, Word cheerfully inserts an ugly line break.

Yeah. That's why it's a good idea to turn that bit of auto-formatting off. Like it's a good idea to turn most of Word's auto-formatting off for manuscripts.

The auto-formatting is designed to help people creating business documents and will drive you nuts when you're doing something simpler (or more complex, for that matter, but that's a topic for a no-longer-existing forum LOL). Turn. It. Off!

froley · Mar 16, 2011

Terie said:
Yeah. That's why it's a good idea to turn that bit of auto-formatting off. Like it's a good idea to turn most of Word's auto-formatting off for manuscripts.

I like to work with Word's "idiosyncrasies". It helps me feel the kind of conflicts my protagonists are engaged in! :tongue

Of course, turning off those auto-corrects would be the smart thing to do.

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